Box Wine Sailors

Author : Amy McCullough
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781613733516

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Box Wine Sailors by Amy McCullough Pdf

The true story of a young couple who quit their jobs and set sail for a year on the ocean with no boating experienceAmy and Jimmie were not sailors and their experience on the seas included reading a few books, watching a couple of instructional videos, and boating once a week each year. They were middle-class land-lubbers, audacious and in love, and all they wanted was to be together and do something extraordinary. The Box Wine Sailors tells the true story of a couple's ramshackle trip down the coast with all the exulting highs and terrifying lows of sailing a small boat on the Pacific. From sailing on Thanksgiving morning under spectacular bright blue Californian skies just off the Channel Islands as dolphins raced alongside their boat to the terrifying experience of rounding Punta Gorda and hanging on to the mast for dear life. It also tells the story of two very normal people doing what most people only dream of and settling the argument that if you want something bad enough you can make it happen.

Author : Mike Badham,Robby Robinson
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999-07-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0071348697

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Sailors' Secrets by Mike Badham,Robby Robinson Pdf

"Sailors' Secrets is a distillation of boating wisdom unmatched by any other. . . . If I were just starting to collect nautical books, I'd think seriously about getting this one first. I found something new and interesting on every page."--Living Aboard "A delightful, dual-purpose kind of book. You can sit down and read through it for pleasure [and] it makes a fine reference."--Mariner's Log (Houston) "This treasure chest of useful advice is offered in bite-size tidbits that will keep the reader coming back for more."--The Log (San Diego) Sailors' Secrets contains over 1,000 tips, suggestions, evaluations, and nuggets of hard-won advice from more than 300 seasoned veterans. Instructive, humorous, biting, and challenging, Sailors' Secrets can be opened anywhere and enjoyed. Its wide-ranging chapters cover routine maintenance, understanding weather, safety at sea, storm strategies, piloting, engine troubleshooting, gear and outfitting, and simple solutions to complex problems. Michael Badham and Robby Robinson have created the nautical equivalent of an experts' forum. Don Casey, Dennis Conner, Bob Rice, Dave Gerr, Hank Hinckley, Bill Biwenga, Sheila McCurdy, Katy Burke, Meade Gougeon, Buddy Melges, Walter Greene, Steve Callahan, and a host of others share the insights they've developed over millions of sea miles.

Author : Arthur J. Binks
Publisher : Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pu
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : 1843862522

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Wine, Women and Sailing by Arthur J. Binks Pdf

Author : Ellen Jacobson
Publisher : Ellen Jacobson
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781951495275

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The Mollie McGhie Cozy Sailing Mysteries, Books 4-6 by Ellen Jacobson Pdf

This collection includes Books 4-6 of the Mollie McGhie Cozy Sailing Mystery series. Check out this fun cozy mystery series with plenty of goofy humor, an adorable cat, and a reluctant sailor turned amateur sleuth. You’ll laugh out loud from start to finish following Mollie McGhie’s sailing adventures. Spoiler alert: You’ll seriously be craving chocolate by the time you finish reading! Book #4 – Dead in the Dinghy What would you do if your husband became obsessed with turning your cat into an internet sensation? Mollie McGhie is excited about the Coconut Cove regatta. She’s looking forward to sailing to Destiny Key, enjoying the Fourth of July festivities, and dressing her cat, Mrs. Moto, up in adorable costumes for her hubby’s crazy new YouTube channel. Instead, they lose the race, get caught in a dangerous storm, and find a dead body in their dinghy. Book #5 – Shooting by the Sea What would you do if your hubby had a celebrity crush? When Mollie McGhie attends the grand opening of her friend’s nail salon, she’s looking forward to getting a manicure and sipping on champagne. The event is going great until Mollie discovers a dead body nearby and her friend’s brother is arrested for murder. Book #6 – Overboard on the Ocean What would you do if your hubby decided to hand over your life savings to a con artist? When Mollie McGhie went on a cruise to the Bahamas, she wasn’t expecting someone to fall overboard. Convinced that foul play was involved, Mollie sets out to prove that it was murder. During the course of her investigation, Mollie uncovers an investment scam that her husband almost got sucked into and discovers exactly how boring maritime law is.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Sailors
ISBN : HARVARD:AH6GFW

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The Sailors' Magazine and Seamen's Friend by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : Merchant mariners
ISBN : HARVARD:HWJUVQ

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The Sailor's Magazine, and Naval Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Fiona Sims
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781472965691

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The Boat Cookbook by Fiona Sims Pdf

For anyone with a tiny galley kitchen, there's good news: no more bland leftovers aboard. These delicious and easy recipes, all made with minimum fuss and maximum flavour, will allow you to spoil yourself in harbour and keep things simple at sea – not to mention rustle up a mean rum punch. With handy ideas on setting up the galley, a lazy guide to filleting mackerel and tips for hosting the perfect beach barbecue, this is the must-have guide for sailors and seaside-lovers alike. The book includes recipe contributions from top chefs (Chris Galvin, Angela Hartnett, Kevin Mangeolles, Ed Wilson and Judy Joo) and sailing legends (Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, Mike Golding, Brian Thompson, Shirley Robertson and Dee Caffari). With a foreword by Chris Galvin, and accompanied throughout by wonderful photography and beautiful hand-drawn illustrations, this will prove to be an invaluable addition to the food lover's kitchen or galley.

Author : Lin Pardey,Larry Pardey
Publisher : l&L Pardey Publications
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781929214365

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The Care and Feeding of Sailing Crew by Lin Pardey,Larry Pardey Pdf

The Care and Feeding of Sailing Crew, despite the title, is hardly a cookbook; rather it’s a primer on successful cruising. Certainly, anyone contemplating, or preparing for, off shore passages would want to read and then keep this volume aboard. A 50 day passage from Japan to Victoria, Canada in 1979 provides Lin a base for discussing everything from menus to clothing, to choosing a fresh chicken, to dealing with port officials, to preventing sea sickness, to buying liquor abroad as well as the best material for underwear. Lin and Larry have been full time cruisers and professional sailors for some 40 plus years, it’s all that they do. They’ve learned a lot and a great deal of their wisdom appears in this book, where specific situations mix with general guidelines. As a bonus, Lin writes very well. She’s able to seamlessly tie one subject to the next in a style that seems like great conversation rather than reading a how-to-do-it text. By structuring the flow of information in and around the process of food preparation while experiencing the joys and travails of a very long passage, she provides the reader with a good cruising tale enhanced with a thousand useful tips. Tips vary from entertaining aboard to coping with money transfers. There are great tips on provisioning in foreign ports as well as a strong suggestion to only go a short distance before anchoring following a farewell party. Excellent chapters will help insure your crew stays healthy and well rested. Others deal with creating an ideal galley. From big ideas to small tips, all are presented logically and with useful illustrations. Learn why credit cards are safer to use than debit cards, how to keep eggs for up to 3 months without refrigeration. How you can determine which engine parts are likely to fail, which plastic material makes the best water jugs, how Lin outsmarted weevils and learned to bake fresh bread. Find out which galley layout works best offshore. Rain water catchers – how to make the best kind. On board trash collection and dealing with "black water" in boats lacking holding tanks. Which cutlery and dinnerware holds up best. Standing watches, getting rest and using Dramamine as a sleeping aid. The book covers everything from the value of "a little black cocktail party dress" to the safety of double sinks. Finally, intertwined in the cornucopia of wisdom is meal after nourishing meal sure to lift the spirits of a weary crew. Those recipes and cooking tips alone make for a book of great value. All the other info is just priceless gravy. This fourth edition of The Care and Feed of Sailing Crew incorporates ideas and information gathered by Lin and Larry during their more recent voyages through the Line Islands and south through the Pacific to New Zealand. The majority of chapters have been expanded to include the most up-to-date information on sources, supplies and new technology. Additional recipes and cooking ideas for use on cruising boats of all sizes have been added to ensure this valuable reference source continues to be relevant for all sailors who venture away from home, be it for a weekend cruise to nearby islands or a voyage around the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Merchant mariners
ISBN : HARVARD:AH6GNC

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The Sailor's Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Semo
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781387187348

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Son Of A Sailor First Edition by William Semo Pdf

First edition The son of a Merchant Marine with a love for the sea, William Semo, born in Somerset Pennsylvania in 1978 in the Laurel Highlands, grew up in the towns of Ligonier and Youngstown Pennsylvania surrounded by lush forests with the vast changing New England seasons. A land surrounded with a rich history of the French/Indian War as well as the Revolutionary War, he drew inspiration from growing up around these lands and people from the highest mountains to the sandiest shores, the scholar to the plowman.

Author : Torre DeRoche
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781401342913

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Love with a Chance of Drowning by Torre DeRoche Pdf

New love. Exotic destinations. A once-in-a-lifetime adventure. What could go wrong? City girl Torre DeRoche isn't looking for love, but a chance encounter in a San Francisco bar sparks an instant connection with a soulful Argentinean man who unexpectedly sweeps her off her feet. The problem? He's just about to cast the dock lines and voyage around the world on his small sailboat, and Torre is terrified of deep water. However, lovesick Torre determines that to keep the man of her dreams, she must embark on the voyage of her nightmares, so she waves good-bye to dry land and braces for a life-changing journey that's as exhilarating as it is terrifying. Somewhere mid-Pacific, she finds herself battling to keep the old boat, the new relationship, and her floundering sanity afloat. . . . This sometimes hilarious, often harrowing, and always poignant memoir is set against a backdrop of the world's most beautiful and remote destinations. Equal parts love story and travel memoir, Love with a Chance of Drowning is witty, charming, and proof positive that there are some risks worth taking.

Author : Emmanuel Besa
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781365753626

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Tales of Intramuros by Emmanuel Besa Pdf

This book is a collection of short stories which fictionalizes history - the 16th to the19th century of Spanish rule and Christianity in Philippines - as a means to explore religious faith and cultural difference and tells the stories of different characters during the Spanish era of colonial rule far from the mother country ruled by the Governor Generals appointed by the King of Spain to represent the state and the Bishop representing the Friars who originally help bring the natives into the fold and a constant battle between church and state kept the country under siege most of the time.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Literature
ISBN : UVA:X030221066

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American Notes and Queries by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rudolph Altrocchi
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781664148529

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Relish of Folly by Rudolph Altrocchi Pdf

Three recent graduates of Harvard take a joyous, carefree summer road trip through Europe in 1909 in a roofless Fiat Touring car. Like most tourists, their major goal was to soak-in the history and culture of Italy, Switzerland, Germany and France. A major secondary purpose, however, was to permeate their trip with the joys and mirth of Folly, following the basic precepts of Desiderius Erasmus in his 1511 book In Praise of Folly: "Without some relish of folly, no banquet is pleasing. Nor is human life in general but a kind of fool's game." Follow these fun-loving young men in their escapades through Europe — one a precocious businessman, one a newly graduated lawyer, the third a Ph.D. candidate training to become a university professor. All three firmly believed that mirth is a condition of supreme well-being and happiness and therefore should pervasively characterize their trip. Prepare to laugh as you join this adventuresome journey of shenanigans and follies, told in a buoyant, exuberant manner against the backdrop of a Europe completely unaware of the looming catastrophe of World War I which would begin just five years later and cause 40 million deaths.

Author : Michael J. Bennett
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807863244

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Union Jacks by Michael J. Bennett Pdf

Historians have given a great deal of attention to the lives and experiences of Civil War soldiers, but surprisingly little is known about navy sailors who participated in the conflict. Michael J. Bennett remedies the longstanding neglect of Civil War seamen in this comprehensive assessment of the experience of common Union sailors from 1861 to 1865. To resurrect the voices of the "Union Jacks," Bennett combed sailors' diaries, letters, and journals. He finds that the sailors differed from their counterparts in the army in many ways. They tended to be a rougher bunch of men than the regular soldiers, drinking and fighting excessively. Those who were not foreign-born, escaped slaves, or unemployed at the time they enlisted often hailed from the urban working class rather than from rural farms and towns. In addition, most sailors enlisted for pragmatic rather than ideological reasons. Bennett's examination provides a look into the everyday lives of sailors and illuminates where they came from, why they enlisted, and how their origins shaped their service. By showing how these Union sailors lived and fought on the sea, Bennett brings an important new perspective to our understanding of the Civil War.